Hailed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century, Marian Anderson used her talent and celebrity to advance civil rights. Her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial defied a ban excluding African American performers from Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, and her 1955 debut at the Metropolitan Opera ended the Met’s exclusion of African American singers in starring roles. This lecture—which includes audio...
THIS LOCATION IS CONFIRMED: Emerson Hall 105 (Harvard Yard)
Postdoctoral Fellows Megan Black, Christopher Clements, Destin Jenkins, and Stuart Schrader will offer brief presentations of their work, and participate in a discussion of Global American Studies. Also present and participating will be Beverly Gage (Yale University), Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University), Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt University), and Richard White (Stanford University)
Title: “After the Catastrophe: Requiem for a Frigorifico.” Presented by the Workshop on Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past.
Along with review of the pre-circulated paper, please also view this video file, especially minutes 28 to 45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERwCAeEGqg. (Note: we anticipate an English translation of at least part of this video to be available before Prof. James’ presentation.)
The Department of History of Science is glad to welcome Jonathan Sterne, James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology, Department of Art History & Communication Studies at Mcgill University, Montreal, to give a...
Rebecca Marchiel, Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi: "It's Our Money: Defending Financial Common Sense in a Collapsing New Deal Order."
Bio: Rebecca Marchiel is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, specializing in urban history, political history, and the history of American capitalism. Her first...
Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
"Fragile Universals: The Making of Racial Hierarchy in the League of Nations”
To order a lunch, email Monnikue McCall (momccall@fas.harvard.edu) by 5pm on Thursday, April 14. Include in your message an indication of any dietary restriction.
Title: "The Perilous State of Afghan Reconstruction"
Abstract: Fourteen years and $113 billion into America's attempt to create a secure, stable, and developing Afghanistan, the balance sheet on reconstruction features some successes, but also weak points and failures. Despite advances in schooling, life expectancy, communications, governance, and other areas, Afghanistan remains plagued with poverty, illiteracy, corruption, incapacity, and--partly because of these conditions--a stubborn insurgency. Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been stolen, lost, or wasted for lack of...
Gabrielle Clark, PhD in Law and Society, New York University: "Bound to Freedom: Deportable Labor and the Law Under American Capitalism (1904-2015)"
Bio: Gabrielle holds a PhD in Law & Society from NYU in 2014 and has previously been a Max Weber Fellow in Law at the European University Institute in Florence Italy. She has published articles on labor and migration in the Journals of Social History and Antipode, and a book chapter on NAFTA investment law in an edited volume entitled Property Rights...
Lily Geismer, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College: "Agents of Change: The Clintons and the Long History of Microfinance in the United States and the World"
